The mission of the Critical Care Fellowship is to provide comprehensive
training in all aspects of critical care while ensuring state of the art
management of trauma, surgical, transplant and burn
critical care patients. This is accomplished through a fully integrated
consortium of anesthesia and surgical critical care staff at UTHSCSA,
SAMMC and the US Army Institute of Surgical Research that supports the clinical, research
and teaching missions of the Trauma Institute of San Antonio (TRISAT).

Goals of the Fellowship: The Consortium develops and administers
components of the integrated schedules and curriculum across the
Critical Care Fellowship programs. The goals of the consortium include:

Develop world class surgical and anesthesia intensivists

Provide wide breadth of knowledge, teaching and clinical experience
including across specialties to trainees

Foster an environment of mentorship not only for staff and fellows but
between fellows and residents

Provide access to cutting edge medical and surgical practice for the
diagnosis and management of patients with critical illness

Provide an environment to participate in and perform basic science, bench
top, and clinical research

TRISAT Education Consortium

The TRISAT educational consortium is comprised of a Director, currently Dr. Steven Venticinque, Program Directors
and Coordinators from UTHSCSA and SAUSHEC Surgical Critical Care and Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowships.
The consortium shares the following educational components:

Critical Care Webcast Lecture Series
Formal didactic lectures on a variety of topics are presented on Tuesdays at noon by the critical care fellows and
faculty. These lectures are presented at one of the individual sites using the web-based format, GoToWebinar.
Participating sites include UTHSCSA/UHS, SAMMC, and UTHSC-Houston. The individual critical care fellow gives
approximately three lectures a year.

Block Rotations
Fellows rotate through University Hospital, the VA Hospital, SAMMC, and the ISR.

Evaluations — Evaluations are captured through New Innovations for UT and SAUSHEC fellows.

Reading Compendium
The reading compendium comprehensively covers the issues of hemodynamic instability and complex multisystem
problems and consists of 12 blocks with 10-11 articles per block. The compendium is required reading.